Gerenian Nestor, guardian of the Greeks, With arms extended toward the starry skies, Prayed earnestly: “O Father Jove, if e’er In fruitful Argos there were burned to thee The thighs of fattened oxen or of sheep, By one who asked a safe return to Greece, And thou didst promise it, remember him, God of Olympus, and avert from us The day of evil. Suffer not the Greeks To perish, slaughtered by the sons of Troy.”